FFXIV has introduced so much content recently. It's a bit overwhelming as a new player (or if you just level boosted)...

FFXIV has introduced so much content recently. It's a bit overwhelming as a new player (or if you just level boosted), therefore, this thread is dedicated to new Players and veteran who wish to discuss the video game or ask questions about it.

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I can't fuck stand lalafells in this game. It's not even a hatred of little things, but it's because they're such sheltered community fucking victim complex faggots that I can't help but detest them.

For fuck's sake I've heard of 9, NINE (9) fucking 'lalafell only' linkshells. Do you know how many elezen/hyur/miqo'te only linkshells I've seen advertised? Fucking none.

I have no idea what the fuck they do when they roleplay, either, because I see them huddling around in groups of 4-5 lalafell with maybe some fucking elezen/roegadyn overseer/babysitter. Are lalafell just so fucking disgusting that every Rper has decided they need to be quarantined?

PLD the holy knight or DRK the edge lord which is more fun?

Thread summary:
>My job is harder than your job!
>Nuh uh my job is way harder than your job!
>My job is harder than both your jobs!
>Reeeeeee fucking retarded players!
>Ugh I'm sooooo bored I played 3000 hours and already run out of things to do, this game has no content
>Look at my parse
>Hahah you are shit, look at MY parse
>You are both shit, look at MY parse
>That's padded you dumb faggot
>Nuh uh
>Yuh huh
>Fuck off I better you never even did this thing when it was new
>Yeah I did
>Nuh uh
>Yuh huh
>Guys how do I play this job
>I have never played that job but reddit told me that it's easy/shit so hahaha you are a fucking retard
>I want to fuck Alphinaud!

Right now probably PLD. DRK lost most of its complexity. PLD has more going on. Not to say that DRK isn't fun at cap but it isn't nearly as engaging as PLD is throughout the mid to high levels.

DRK is more simple and you are in control of your rotation unlike PLD which is static

The majority of lala players are faggots but there are a few that are literally the best players both in attitude and skill.

I'd disagree. Dark Arts alone makes DRK more interesting than PLD at least until they get Holy Spirit/Requiescat, but by then DRK has bloodspiller.

surprisingly accurate

I'm leaning more towards DRK mainly because they got cool looking skills and armor.

From what I hear this is the only good MMO to ever come out. I've never liked MMOs. But I like FF. Is this any fun?

>I want to fuck Alphinaud!
Good taste famalam.

Also a reminder that Y'shtola is a hypocrite.

>HOW DARE YOU ENCROACH ON KOBOLD TERRITORY IN ORDER TO SURVIVE, THE KOBOLDS WERE RIGHT TO SUMMON TITAN!
>HOW DARE YOU TRY TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE SAHAGIN WHILE THEY ARE ENCROACHING ON YOUR TERRITORY IN ORDER TO SURVIVE! THEY ARE IN THE FULL RIGHT TO DO SO.

if you dont like mmos then you wont like it. but there's a free trial so it cant really hurt to give it a try

Fucking hell, i finally got a party that could do mechanics for 2.0 but there wasnt enough DPS. We hit enrage 3 times with no deaths. It's so frustrating. On a related note, as someone who plays this game with high ping i really really hate the first tentacle cast where you have to go to the safe tentacle and stand near the tank because i almost never manage to go back to the ground. It looks like i'm in the circle but if the tank is moving it just becomes a rng connection based shitshow.

mental illness

If you like Final Fantasy then this game will feel like a JRPG with multiplayer co-op. How much fun you will have depends on how you feel about Themepark hotbar MMOs.

>this game will feel like a JRPG with multiplayer co-op
Thats what I was hoping

PLD have some of the best looking weapons and the coolest defensive cooldown in the game.
But DRK is better at pretty much everything else, especially animations (Riot Blade is stupid as fuck) .

>JRPG with multiplayer co-op
That is pretty much why I still play XIV. That and soundtrack.

Dungeons are garbage though and most of the content is insultingly easy

FF was always kinda easy but at least its fun

Fun fact! XIV has the most pieces of original music of any videogame ever.

DRK
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It's pretty fun, DRK has been my main tank job for a while. Played all 3 at cap in HW but DRK was the funnest. I just feel like they lost alot of fun factor in Stormblood with fewer abilities to use, only one real combo worth using. Bloodspiller is fun, the Blackest Night is really sweet when you get the hang of it but overall PLD still just feels more engaging to play. More choice in combos, more group utility. Cannot beat the DRK aesthetic though

i want to smell sophia's crotch

>trying to pug O3S

I've been playing for almost a year and have never run into any of this weird social shit everyone talks about. My FC barely talks and no one in duties ever talks. Where do you get this shit from?

>trying to pug O2S consistently

You wanna taste her salt-sweet breeze too?

Reminder that Sophia is a "Goddess of Equality" with Equality being "Everyone is equal beneath me", meaning she is basically the the Goddess of SJW.

i think i do now that you mention it

I came to this thread to complain about the shitty zone design of Stormblood.
Every zone while much larger than ARR ones have no goddamn thought put into them at all. Offensive amounts of copy+pasting with no effort to hide it, they didn't do anything to make FATEs interesting or fun, and overall they're just big empty shitholes. You can't even enter any buildings.

why does it feel like sheltron is never as good as TBN

Do you guys play on an alt as well?

No. I cant think of a reason other than gearing two jobs at the same time during the shitty lockouts along with having more crafting specializations. I don't have the time or commitment for that and the reduced sub fee is nice.

>Doing OS2
>Party leader kicks me because i don't have enough dps
>Can clear the dummy with 20 seconds left
Did i just get memed on or is it just not enough?

Pretty sure you're supposed to break it

What class.

DRG
What do you mean?

I actually really like the some of the new areas. Yanxia and Peaks have dozen of "secret" paths that you can use as shortcuts for sidequests until you unlock flying, it was a very nice touch. They also have dozen of minor secrets and places to find (I like this kind of stuff, even without rewards).
But I agree that there is a bit of copy-paste abuse. They created a new kind of FATE (chase a giant robot boss, in Peaks) but I think there is only one like that. I guess they are saving all FATE ideas for Eureka.

No, XIV's MSQ is long as fuck, plus there is no reason to play with alt characters other than (E)RP adventures.

>clears dummy
>thinks he's good

You got memed lad.

If you think that DRK looks cooler you should probably just play them. No other class (except maybe SAM) makes me feel like a mightier anime retard

I tried but doing MSQ again made me wanna kill myself desu. Doing that and unlocking everything again takes too long.

This
I'd rather have better, more fleshed out Gyr Abania and then separately the Far East, because as it is it feels like they bit off more than they could chew and in the end Gyr Abania feels unsatisfying and haphazard and Far East feels like small samples cut out from a much bigger land, both made to fit Heavensward model regardless of how much sense it made.

Ala Mhigo isn't even a fucking zone!

I can't think of a single reason why I'd ever play an alt.

Training dummy and actual combat are completely different situations.
Get a parse to check your DPS during combat.

I wish that this game had harder shit so that it was more social. I want to be able to have bants with my fellow adventurers but it seems like socialization is strictly limited to your guilds.

I just want to flip on my rp tag and act like an overconfident buffoon of an adventurer. everyone just erps.

>tfw just hit ilvl310 and can now get into all these Susano/Lakshmi parties and maybe actually clear them since there aren't any sub-310 clear parties for some reason
>tfw got into 2 Hunt linkshells so I get to do giant fights with 30 people
So this is the power of endgame in an MMO

Training dummy at least makes sure you're gear appropriate

>rest of friends clear without me on o3s since I'm suspended
>glad for them but unsure if I should bother going on after coming back if my account doesn't get terminated since they'll be on O4S prog or beat it
Kinda sucks, but there's always 4.2/O5-8S at least.

tfw bought the game when you heard Sophia's theme in the 3.4 trailer
Zurvan and Susanoo's were a disappointment in comparison

What bothers me the most about the new areas is how most of them feel like a square. The Lochs is the worst offender.
I remember 2.0 areas having more interesting land formation and pathways. The only 4.0 area that feels different is Yanxia.

What did you get suspended for?

I really can't believe people lament the loss of the Delirium combo as the death of DRK's "complexity". Like, really nigga? Pressing Souleater instead of Delirium when you used DA was THAT amazing?

If 4.0 DRK was what we had in Heavensward, and Stormblood changed it to be like 3.X DRK, everyone would be crying bloody murder about how dumbed down it got.

sorry I'm retarded and read that as you not clearing it at 20% left
in which case you got memed

Breaking my temper and calling a shitty dragoon a nigger in party chat.

Will we get a new trailer soon?.

Oh, alright. I've heard a lot of stories about people's accounts getting suspended for really weird reasons, some times because SE thought the person did something and they didn't.

But I think I'm fine so long as I don't call shitty dragoons niggers.

In october a week or so before 4.1

To be fair, places like Ruby Sea and Steppes have to be "squares" since they are basically a small part of a far bigger region (ocean and plains, respectively). Kinda like when you pick a region to build your world in Legend of Mana.

MP management is why people complain, not because of Delirium or Scourge. Low blow/reprisal aiding MP management also added a little bit of a skill ceiling with DRK and there was a clear difference between a good DRK and a great DRK in 3.x

Now a good DRK is a great DRK.

I find Hunts to be one of the most fun thing in this game just because of the amount of people that gather around to do it. It kinda sucks the mobs are super easy and it gets repetitive fast. Makes a good amount of money though.

>Tank overpulls
>I can't cast Gravity since tank will die in 3-4s without attention
>The SAMs can't AOE since they are out of TP
>We have this long fight where I just heal the guy
>This is a "speedrun"
Doesn't feel very fast to me

Depends on if you get reported or not. If you don't get reported you're fine. I should have held my tongue but we already had a ton of shitters earlier so I couldn't contain it.

Yeah, the loss of delirium wasn't a big deal.
What was a big deal was losing Low Blow and Reprisal to tank roles that deal no damage and don't proc on parries. No more chain testical smashing with your iron boot.
Then there's Blood Price being turned into nothing but a gauge filler because of how little MP it restores, so now you have no AOE MP regeneration fucking at all until level 64.
THEN Scourge is gone, because the animation was too cool.
And because we just can't fucking stop taking shit away, Unleash had its potency cut in half for no reason and Dark Passenger was turned into an ability you only use if you decide that you absolutely hate having a mana bar and want your DPS to be fucked for the rest of the fight.

I don't know if that shit was too complex or what but I want it all back.

Peaks is just two separate maps that share a not even really a square, like if you stuck Central and Western Thanalan in the same instance. Technically you're sort of right with Ruby Sea but it's at least 50% water with uniquely shaped islands and underwater areas so it hardly matters.

I see this post almost verbatim every thread. What changed between 3.x and 4.0? I never played it before Stormblood hit because I was still on the trial. As it is, I think DRK is really fun. I like all the different things Dark Arts lets you do and The 60-70 abilities add a lot of nice utility and damage options for the job. It's the most fun I've had in the game so far.

>Makes a good amount of money though.
I've just been going straight to the hunts from the LS notifications. Should I be trying to pick up the contracts from Kugane too or something?

So could I conceivable get partied with a MOBA shitter and if they don't like a pull I do, they report and quit, and my account gets suspended?

reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/6pqdkj/runescape_has_achieved_3_new_guinness_world/

Thats runescape

Afaik wholly depends. If what they do breaks the user agreement, you have a good case. I've just called people worse things and this is my second report (obviously) since 3.2 was my first.

>tank pulls multiple groups of mobs
>he isn't quite geared to deal with that
>have to spam heals on him constantly
>am completely out of mana when the mobs are cleared
>DPS are out of TP
>he pulls another group straight away
Fucking hell nigger SLOW THE FUCK DOWN

I'm talking about the Cracked Clusters you get from the mobs. Trade those for Materia VI and dump them into the market. Already made like 20m+ from casually doing hunts.
Materia prices vary from server to server though, so yours might not be that profitable. Current patch also influences prices (usually the highest on release day). Prices will probably tank when new Deep Dungeon comes out.

Nigger shut the fuck up and learn to heal.

This wouldn't have happened if you had just queued as WHM

>What changed between 3.x and 4.0
You lost a lot of abilities that made the class fun to play and had others gutted into uselessness.
TBN and Bloodspiller/Quietus is fucking awesome but there was no reason to rape its OGCDs.

>you aren't using swift cast, shields, or regens
>sams aren't goading each other
Found the problems

Keep up nigga

>overpulls
Literally git gud

t. dark knight with str accs, grit disabled, and incapable of managing defensive cooldowns

>omg why did we wipe fukken healer and his finite mana bar

>4.0 release
>oh boy new content!
>it's just Heavensward V.2 in a different package with the same farm mentality
>next content comes in october which releases a 24 raid (just like HW)

Yoshi is a hack who ran out of ideas a long time ago.

Oh those. I was saving all mine in case I need to meld some stuff. On that note, what should I be melding as DRK? Just straight Tenacity or STR?

Hows it compare to Guild Wars 2? I played a bit of XIV when 1.0 launched and wasnt impressed, havent touched it in a long time but been seeing a lot of threads of it.

Is it as memey as Sup Forums makes it out to be?

Why are DRK's being blamed for this? every DRK ive seen is a massive pussy that pulls little by little where PLD's go full in and then die because they forgot they have other CD's aside from hallowed.

And dont even get me started on WAR's

That's not true.

>WOOOOOW DUDE WHY AREN'T YOU USING YOUR COOLDOWNS

How did Low Blow and Reprisal aid MP management? Furthermore how was MP management difficult in the slightest? Because it drained? Just leave yourself a reserve.

>What was a big deal was losing Low Blow and Reprisal to tank roles that deal no damage and don't proc on parries.
But Low Blow was a thoughtless, boring skill. It was an automatic thing that you just smashed when it lit up, it added nothing. It also forced DRK into the MT position since they were losing that DPS if they couldn't parry. Similar thing for Reprisal, except that you just popped Dark Dance when you wanted it. Other tanks had no equivalent, so it also made DRK a mandatory pick for raids.
>Then there's Blood Price being turned into nothing but a gauge filler
Blood Price is for big AoE pulls and restores reasonable MP in those, although it is a little on the weak side before it also generates blood. But this was made up for by Syphon Strike giving double MP in Grit. The entire reasoning was because Blood Price effectively gave DRK infinite MP in AoE pulls and placed them firmly in the top spot for AoE tanking. And honestly, that hasn't even changed. Salted Earth and Abbysal Drain are still fucking amazing, and they've still got plenty of tools to keep their MP going unlike PLD and WAR which are rendered basically useless once their TP runs out.
>THEN Scourge is gone, because the animation was too cool.
It's a shame to lose Scourge's animation, but it was just another thoughtless timer to babysit. They removed tons of DoTs for the same reason, they're better replaced with abilities that actually interact with the job's core rotation and resources.
>Unleash/Dark Passenger
These changes were a little odd, I can only assume it was to firmly establish Abyssal Drain as the intended AoE skill while Unleash is for aggro only. Dark Passenger really is useless though, but it's not like it was super amazing before. Just another oGCD to mash on cooldown.

>finite mana
What are you, a sch

Are there any ninjutsu actions to avoid in single target?

>memey
Use your big boy words

If they big dick pull twice you can burn your Lucid and it might not be back up in time.

I'm not sure where you are in the end game but if you aren't doing Omega Savage there's no need to waste your Materia.
But if you indeed are doing Omega Savage then you better have every single slot melded up with VI if you don't want to be instantly kicked.
I don't play tank though so I can't help with that.

Besides Doton, obviously. Same question for a group of about 3 targets

I resub every other patch solely because of the boss music in that patch

Doton is the best for single target when using Ten Chi Jin or whatever it's called.

>How did Low Blow and Reprisal aid MP management
Physical strikes that were affected by blood weapons ability to restore mp
If you dont know something that basic you have no leg to stand on in this discussion

Hyoton; Doton and Katon if they aren't Ten Chi Jin'd - if the boss will move, don't use the Doton finisher for Ten Chi Jin when it's up
Overall fuck Hyoton
I prefer using Raiton only when there's contagion or kassatsu up.

Okay then. I'm only ilvl310 and haven't even started Omega yet, so it seems I made the right choice to save them up.

The ice one, so useless I've forgotten its name

>Finally get back after 3 weeks
>WAR is now a lot more fluid and enjoyable to play

Thank God, now to see what 3.1 brings for Shake it Off

>But Low Blow was a thoughtless, boring skill. It was an automatic thing that you just smashed when it lit up, it added nothing.
Retarded
Low Blow was objectively fun to use while cycling through targets on top of it restoring MP on Blood Weapon. There's nothing wrong with a riposte OGCD. Shit, PLDs still have theirs, DRK's just got removed for some reason.
Removing a bunch of abilities because "you need to babysit it" or "it's just a button you mash!" is an atrocious slippery slope that leads to, well, LED TO DRK becoming literally 1-2-3 bloodspiller.